Matt Brennan

Excited to announce the return of Dear Green Music Scene, a free solar and hydrogen powered outdoor music festival, Sunday 15 June at @uofglasgow.bsky.social! Fab musicians, kids activities, and a ceilidh starting at 12.30pm, see you there! 🎵🎵🎵 Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dear-green...

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

True 🤣

It's as if transphobes have never actually considered that trans men (assigned female at birth, but now on hormones and passing as men) aren't equal in numbers to trans women. Do these folk not have any trans people in their lives?

I was chuffed to be interviewed by @nature.com for this new article on reducing the climate impact of live music. Feeling very scientific today 🧪🤓

Lecturer in Creative Practice in Music (LTS Track) at University of Glasgow Discover Lecturer in Creative Practice in Music (LTS Track) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

We’re recruiting for a Part Time Lecturer in Creative Practice in Music!

The post is 17.5 hours per week and open-ended.

Closing date is 25 March 2025.

@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@music-in-the-uni.bsky.social

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En route to Manchester for a radio session with the band tonight, butterflies abound 🦋🦋🦋

New survey findings published today from over 1,000 Taylor Swift fans on their vinyl record consumption, listening habits, and environmental sustainability attitudes. Interesting differences between why Gen Z buy vinyl vs. a more traditional middle-aged demographic 🎵🎵🎵👀

Re-amplifying this job going in digital music cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social
Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college

The search is deep & wide

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Some good news: we are hiring a new Professor of Music at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! Come work with us 🎵🎵 🎵 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo...

Sign the Petition SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

It's a grim time for arts education in the UK. The latest in a series of such announcements, Cardiff University has announced plans to close its music department (along with a host of other subjects). Please sign and share the petition if you can.

Had a lovely album launch gig at the Glad Cafe last night, excited to put this little labour of love out into the cosmos 😊

Excited to share that my wife and I formed a band (@beautiful-cosmos.bsky.social) and our debut album is out this weekend! It's also part of a new art and research project called Doughnut Music Lab. Read all about it here:

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I'll be giving my inaugural professorial lecture, 'Making sense of popular music inside and outside the academy,' on Wednesday 22 January at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Drinks reception afterward, all welcome, please come along if you fancy it! Free via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

Are Eco-Friendly Tours the Future of Live Music? How Billie Eilish and Coldplay Make Their Concerts Sustainable Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' and Coldplay's 'Music of the Spheres' tours are aiming to reduce carbon emissions and set an example.

I enjoyed chatting to @variety.bsky.social about the opportunities and challenges for environmentally sustainable live music tours, you can have a read here:

variety.com/2025/music/n...

Big job: Open-rank Professor of Popular Music, Smith College

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Hi, please add me!

Absolutely ✨❤️✨

It's the two year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT and still nobody can actually say what it is or why it's the future

I thought I wanted to go somewhere like Twitter used to be, but have realized that what I actually want is to go back to 2015 🫠

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

YouTube video by TEROCKMAN Spinal Tap Drumers

Prepping a lecture for a 1st year undergrad course tomorrow on the changing status of the drum kit and drummers. This Spinal Tap clip may have to make an appearance #drums #drummers #drumming

And here is one for popular music studies, fabulous! Thank you @amamartinez.bsky.social for creating this

Hello! Thank you for starting this list 👍

I'm trying to figure out Bluesky as a music academic. I'm not sure who made this list (but thank you!), it's super helpful for fellow musicologists looking for their people on here! go.bsky.app/3qnmrZU

Fellow music scholars: I'm refreshing my course reading lists. What popular music / music industry studies books and articles published since 2014 have made the biggest impact on your thinking and the wider field? What's your vote for essential reading?